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The congregation of Edinburgh High Street United Presbyterian Church, later Edinburgh Henderson United Presbyterian Church, dates back to 1860 when the Missionary Association of Broughton Place, together with the Rose Street Missionary Association, appointed the Rev. Adam Lind Simpson to work in the area of Edinburgh's lower High Street. Mr Simpson was inducted in 1861 and the congregation of Edinburgh High Street United Presbyterian was formally established in that same year. The first meeting place of the session, which was in Skinner's Close, had previously belonged to the Original Burgher congregation. Within a year of the ordination of Rev. John Thomson, the second minister of Henderson United Presbyterian, a proposal was made to unite the congregations of Henderson United Presbyterian and North Richmond Street United Presbyterian, and on the 9th April 1867, the two charges were joined together under the name of Edinburgh North Richmond Street United Presbyterian, and under the charge of the Rev. Thomson, formerly of Henderson Street. The North Richmond Street buildings were chosen for the united congregation and the former Henderson United Presbyterian Church was used for a while by the Rose Street congregation, until it was cleared away under the City Improvements Act. |